Read Acts Chapter 2
1. Where is Peter standing according to Acts 2:14? What time is it?
2. To whom does he make his address according to Acts 2:14?
3. What explanation does Peter give in Acts 2:14-15?
4. Copy Joel 2:28-32. Compare it to what Peter tells the crowd in Acts 2:17-21. What do you notice?
5. What do you learn from Isaiah 44:3?
Going deeper: What does the term “last days” refer to? How do you know? Provide support from the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) for your position.
6. What does Peter say of Yeshua in Acts 2:22-23?
7. What does Peter say of God in 2:22-24?
8. Copy Psalm 16:8-11. Compare this text to the text of Acts 2:25-28. What do you observe?
9. What is the point that Peter is making by using the text of Psalm 16 here?
10. What does Peter explain about David in the following verses?
Acts 2:29
Acts 2:30
Acts 2:31
11. How does Peter link the prophecy of David in Psalm 16 to the resurrection of Yeshua?
Prayer prompt: Copy Acts 2:32. Take at least 15 minutes and pray and reflect on the eye witnesses to Yeshua’s resurrection. What must it have been to have seen the resurrected Yeshua after the events of his multiple trials and his crucifixion? What additional boldness would have been received by Peter and the others as they waited prayerfully for the gift of the Holy Spirit? What would have the culmination of those days of prayer and waiting have done to their faith when the Holy Spirit was poured out? How would that have impacted Peter’s delivery of this sermon in Acts 2? How does this story emboldened you? Consider your heart and how it reacts to these events of history.
12. What does Peter say of Yeshua in Acts 2:33?
13. From whom does Peter say the gift of the Holy Spirit was received was received by Yeshua in Acts 2:33?
14. What did Yeshua do with the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:33?
15. How does Peter use Psalm 110:1 in support of his argument about Yeshua in Acts 2:34-36? Try to restate his position in your own words.
16. What is the response to this message from Peter according to Acts 2:37?
17. What is Peter’s response in Acts 2:38?
18 For whom does Peter say the promise of the Holy Spirit is intended in Acts 2:39?
19. Who is he referring to when he says, “all who are far off” in Acts 2:39? How do you know?
20. What does Peter exhort them to do in Acts 2:40?
21. What was the response according to Acts 2:41?
Going deeper: What do you observe about Peter from this passage (Acts 2:14-41)? Compare the Peter of the gospels to Peter in this passage.
22. What is the message of God, the Father, given through Yeshua, the Promised Messiah, according to Peter’s message in Acts 2:14-41?
23. What four things did they devote themselves to according to Acts 2:42?
24. Copy Acts 2:43. Take some time to meditate and pray over this. What is your heart’s response to awe coming upon every soul and/or wonders and signs being done?
24. What was the response for the community according to the following verses?
Acts 2:44
Acts 2:45
Acts 2:46
Acts 2:47
Prayer prompt: As we conclude the study of this chapter, review Acts 2:42 to the end. Allow God to open your understanding of the unity among the believers in the early church. Ask God to reveal to you how this type of unity might be present or missing from your life. Mind your heart’s response. Is your heart resistant to these ideas of communal living and unity of the body? Is your heart excited by it? Ask God to reveal your motives, your hurts. Have you been hurt in the church, in being trusting and open with others? Sit with God and let him speak His love over your soul. He desires to take this from your, to retrain your heart for unity with other believers.
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